Observations from the midlife empty nest

This is a guest post by Danielle Kunkle Roberts. She is the co-founder of Boomer Benefits where she and her team help baby boomers navigate their Medicare insurance options. She is a member of the Forbes Finance Council and writes frequently about Medicare, retirement and personal finance.
Dreaming of retirement day is something that nearly everyone indulges in now and then. … [Read more...]

It was a pleasure to be interviewed yesterday by Anna Canzano, a 2 time Emmy winning investigative journalist. Here is the video of our conversation. Enjoy!https://thatexpertshow.com/#68e51cd6-b6ef-42e0-9595-dd016a72ab38 … [Read more...]

I was at a chateau in the Burgundy region of France for my cousin's wedding when a butterfly flew in my room. It hovered there for a few minutes, flapping its orange and black wings, just hanging around, and then it flew outside and landed on the hundreds-years-old stone façade, taking in the view.
I am fairly certain that butterfly was an incarnation of my grandmother. It … [Read more...]

In 1978, there was no fashion love for straight-haired women. Every where you looked, curls and Afros ruled—big, haloed heads, bobbing up and down, all sassy and free and wild. I was obsessed with getting a perm. It started with Barbra Streisand in "A Star is Born," her formerly ordinary long hair a mass of wonderful tangles that I yearned for, even as I tried, with no luck, to … [Read more...]

When I was raising my kids, at the end of the last century, there was a lot of chatter in my life. Right before the explosion of the internet, texting, and email, so much of my time was spent talking to other people. If I wanted to order something from the Nordstrom catalog, I had to pick up the phone and call someone. If I had a question for one of my children's teachers, I … [Read more...]